Amy Ziegfeld
@amyz.bsky.social
Disability rights attorney, feminist, writer, incompetent artist, lover of games. Former comic book reviewer.
I have one of these things and it is, as they say, the tits. Especially great at holidays when you need to quickly and easily retrieve some batteries!
there's two kind of people in the world: the people who see the Battery Daddy and think it's a useless, possibly even joke-gift type product and people like me who instantly recognize it as one of the best things I've ever purchased: amzn.to/4ja84eH
Ontel Battery Daddy Storage & Organizer Case with Tester, Stores & Protects Up to 180 Batteries, Double-Sided, Durable Design with Clear Locking Lid, Secure Latches & Portable Carrying Handle - Red
Ontel Battery Daddy - Battery Organizer Storage Case with Tester, Stores & Protects Up to 180 Batteries, Clear Locking Lid, As Seen On TV
amzn.to
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I have one of these things and it is, as they say, the tits. Especially great at holidays when you need to quickly and easily retrieve some batteries!
Wait, THIS is the evangelist of the AI Bubble? The guy whose tome-length analyses of AI financial reports project certain doom for everyone in AI's orbit?
Arguing government should just make inflation illegal? My god...
Arguing government should just make inflation illegal? My god...
December 20, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Wait, THIS is the evangelist of the AI Bubble? The guy whose tome-length analyses of AI financial reports project certain doom for everyone in AI's orbit?
Arguing government should just make inflation illegal? My god...
Arguing government should just make inflation illegal? My god...
The one real sour note in Muppet Christmas Carol is the creepy porcelain doll Muppet as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Doesn't work! Shoulda used a real Muppet and given her a few jokes.
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The one real sour note in Muppet Christmas Carol is the creepy porcelain doll Muppet as the Ghost of Christmas Past. Doesn't work! Shoulda used a real Muppet and given her a few jokes.
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People have spoken and they do not want developer crunch, unless it means games cost more than $60, in which case, back to work, prole
Naughty Dog Is Reportedly Crunching Again For Intergalactic, Despite Planned 2027 Release https://kotaku.com/intergalactic-heretic-prophet-naughty-dog-crunch-trailer-2000654650
Naughty Dog Is Reportedly Crunching Again For Intergalactic
The Last of Us studio has notoriously struggled with overwork on previous projects
kotaku.com
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
People have spoken and they do not want developer crunch, unless it means games cost more than $60, in which case, back to work, prole
The thing I always come back to on this: Good countries, countries that are really well-functioning and on-the-ball, countries that have it together, these countries do not, as a rule, have to shoot their citizens when they try to leave.
anyway. all of this to say. i obviously do not know what it’s like, living under communism, and certainly under soviet era oppression. but i do know im not gonna gaslight people who did live under it
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The thing I always come back to on this: Good countries, countries that are really well-functioning and on-the-ball, countries that have it together, these countries do not, as a rule, have to shoot their citizens when they try to leave.
I'm generally not a big fan of Kino Lorber, my least favorite among the boutique physical media companies, but their release of Miracle Mile is fantastic, genuinely Criterion quality. Like, 9 times out of 10 their releases are just "Here's the trailer & some semi-related trailers." This one is good!
December 18, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I'm generally not a big fan of Kino Lorber, my least favorite among the boutique physical media companies, but their release of Miracle Mile is fantastic, genuinely Criterion quality. Like, 9 times out of 10 their releases are just "Here's the trailer & some semi-related trailers." This one is good!
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I just don't think I quite have the level of hate for AI making pictures that some people do. I feel like "using the machine to create a sense of the sort of thing I'd like to see then showing that to actual artists and having them do their thing with it" is, like, quite a good idea?
December 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I just don't think I quite have the level of hate for AI making pictures that some people do. I feel like "using the machine to create a sense of the sort of thing I'd like to see then showing that to actual artists and having them do their thing with it" is, like, quite a good idea?
If you're putting out a physical media release of a film that includes multiple versions (e.g. "International" and "Director's Cut") you have a moral and, in a just world, legal obligation to include a feature that answers the question "So what's the deal with all these versions?"
December 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If you're putting out a physical media release of a film that includes multiple versions (e.g. "International" and "Director's Cut") you have a moral and, in a just world, legal obligation to include a feature that answers the question "So what's the deal with all these versions?"
Your detailed and nuanced expertise is no match for my simple heuristic.
December 16, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Your detailed and nuanced expertise is no match for my simple heuristic.
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The thing I love about bluesky is that it's a perfect simulation of being in a college town's anarchist bookstore. Just constant rhetorical games and bs. "Oh you think it's a happy holiday? Well I haven't been happy since I found out about Rosa Luxemburg's death" awesome no notes
December 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The thing I love about bluesky is that it's a perfect simulation of being in a college town's anarchist bookstore. Just constant rhetorical games and bs. "Oh you think it's a happy holiday? Well I haven't been happy since I found out about Rosa Luxemburg's death" awesome no notes
Oh, some amusingly negative filmgoing experiences!
First, watching a poorly-attended matinee of Last Christmas. So, the movie has a Twist. It's a very bad twist. And the audience was mostly bored to that point. Then there's a montage that reveals the twist. The rage was PALPABLE.
First, watching a poorly-attended matinee of Last Christmas. So, the movie has a Twist. It's a very bad twist. And the audience was mostly bored to that point. Then there's a montage that reveals the twist. The rage was PALPABLE.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Oh, some amusingly negative filmgoing experiences!
First, watching a poorly-attended matinee of Last Christmas. So, the movie has a Twist. It's a very bad twist. And the audience was mostly bored to that point. Then there's a montage that reveals the twist. The rage was PALPABLE.
First, watching a poorly-attended matinee of Last Christmas. So, the movie has a Twist. It's a very bad twist. And the audience was mostly bored to that point. Then there's a montage that reveals the twist. The rage was PALPABLE.
Oops! This movie has naked tits that I neither knew about nor expected - a mortifying experience for parents and their post-pubescent children alike.
The last movie I remember seeing alone with my dad at a theater was The Devil's Advocate when I was in high school. That was... a considerably more awkward experience
Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dad. Seeing Star Trek V with my dad. Seeing Oliver & Company with my dad. Seeing Roger Rabbit with my dad. Seeing Land Before Time with my dad. Seeing Princess Bride with my dad.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Oops! This movie has naked tits that I neither knew about nor expected - a mortifying experience for parents and their post-pubescent children alike.
The last movie I remember seeing alone with my dad at a theater was The Devil's Advocate when I was in high school. That was... a considerably more awkward experience
Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dad. Seeing Star Trek V with my dad. Seeing Oliver & Company with my dad. Seeing Roger Rabbit with my dad. Seeing Land Before Time with my dad. Seeing Princess Bride with my dad.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The last movie I remember seeing alone with my dad at a theater was The Devil's Advocate when I was in high school. That was... a considerably more awkward experience
Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dad. Seeing Star Trek V with my dad. Seeing Oliver & Company with my dad. Seeing Roger Rabbit with my dad. Seeing Land Before Time with my dad. Seeing Princess Bride with my dad.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark with my dad. Seeing Star Trek V with my dad. Seeing Oliver & Company with my dad. Seeing Roger Rabbit with my dad. Seeing Land Before Time with my dad. Seeing Princess Bride with my dad.
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I'm always dubious of a study that's like "oh if only voters hear this context-free block of text instead of this context-free block of text they'll support us"
December 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm always dubious of a study that's like "oh if only voters hear this context-free block of text instead of this context-free block of text they'll support us"
As both a lawyer and a nerd for constitutional law, it pains me to have to say this, but: If you're arguing that Dems should make fighting the Supreme Court an election issue, you should know that if you know all 9 members of the Court you are in a vanishingly small <1% portion of the population.
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
As both a lawyer and a nerd for constitutional law, it pains me to have to say this, but: If you're arguing that Dems should make fighting the Supreme Court an election issue, you should know that if you know all 9 members of the Court you are in a vanishingly small <1% portion of the population.
So... Kinda looks like Metroid Prime 4 and Octopath 0 are both bad? LOL.
December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
So... Kinda looks like Metroid Prime 4 and Octopath 0 are both bad? LOL.
It is striking the degree to which children's stories, toys, and media generally attempt to teach kids the lesson "Bears are adorable and cuddly and a little bit silly and definitely your friend," when you consider that real life bears are absolutely not that.
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
It is striking the degree to which children's stories, toys, and media generally attempt to teach kids the lesson "Bears are adorable and cuddly and a little bit silly and definitely your friend," when you consider that real life bears are absolutely not that.
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this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
this is why i will never give up my circa 2010 dvd boxset of THE WIRE. i don't give a shit about high def for older tv shows, give me the original aspect ratio (need to get my hands on an old simpsons boxset for this reason as well)
Anime Christmas Content:
1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. That One Episode of Urusei Yatsura
3. ???
Suggestions?
1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. That One Episode of Urusei Yatsura
3. ???
Suggestions?
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Anime Christmas Content:
1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. That One Episode of Urusei Yatsura
3. ???
Suggestions?
1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. That One Episode of Urusei Yatsura
3. ???
Suggestions?
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Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
November 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!
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Stranger Things Season 5
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Stranger Things Season 5
Today I learned there was a Rush Hour 3.
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Today I learned there was a Rush Hour 3.
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All you peons who've never worked in journalism don't understand!
The reporters don't write the headlines!
The headlines are written by elves!
The elves live in the forest!
We must not enter the forest!
We must not speak the True Name of the Elves!
We must not criticize their mystic works!
The reporters don't write the headlines!
The headlines are written by elves!
The elves live in the forest!
We must not enter the forest!
We must not speak the True Name of the Elves!
We must not criticize their mystic works!
November 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
All you peons who've never worked in journalism don't understand!
The reporters don't write the headlines!
The headlines are written by elves!
The elves live in the forest!
We must not enter the forest!
We must not speak the True Name of the Elves!
We must not criticize their mystic works!
The reporters don't write the headlines!
The headlines are written by elves!
The elves live in the forest!
We must not enter the forest!
We must not speak the True Name of the Elves!
We must not criticize their mystic works!